Friday Night Videos

So what happens when Tom Petty and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics collaborate with the director of The Kids Are Alright on the video of a song about an early-morning encounter with a coked-up Stevie Nicks?

One of my favourite Petty songs- the other being “Last Dance With Mary Jane”. Both, apparently, about drug use. Which brings me to one of the major sources of tension between Libertarians and Conservatives- legalised drug use. How can Conservatives who drink object to drug legalisation without being that Worst Of All Things, Hypocrites? One can go in to all the historical and cultural justifications for favouring booze over the Chronic (and all of it’s companions}, but the final argument is that the newer intoxicants aren’t an alternative to alcohol, but an addition.